Fisher Events

Please join us for the Fisher's biennial fair featuring over a dozen book makers and artists.

Join us for a display of special collections on LGBTQ+ topics and reading performances, hosted by Dank Sinatra with guests Ella Mayo and Ocean La Vodka Giovanni.

This seminar will explore the role of community and institutional archives and libraries in the making, preservation, and dissemination of Black histories from multidisciplinary practices.

This 3-day seminar trains participants in low-barrier, non-invasive scientific imaging and analytic techniques appropriate for the study of manuscripts and printed books from a variety of global book traditions.

Join us for a special evening of music, songs, and poetry featuring singers, composers and poets.

Join us for a viewing of manuscripts, facsimiles and early printed books relating to the spread of Renaissance Humanism in Europe, and especially the role played in this process by Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) and Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II).

Dr. Winona Wheeler will speak on the origin stories of Cree syllabics, and how Cree people used their written words.

Will feature a display and discussion of archival and bibliographic collections documenting global protest and resistance movements.

Join us for a display of beautiful and rare Pesach (Passover) Haggadot, including Medieval manuscripts, early printed books, Kibbutz and secular Haggadot, as well as modern artists' Haggadot.

Join us for an open house to celebrate National Indigenous Languages Day with a display of manuscripts, dictionaries, hymnals, periodicals, and primers in Indigenous languages, including newly purchased material.

In this lecture, Surekha Davies shows how print and manuscript miscellanies and geographical works produced in Europe by geographers, naturalists, and collectors like Sir Hans Sloane were artefacts with which their compilers puzzled through the boundaries (or lack thereof) between human, animal, and the idea of the monster.

This workshop will examine the history of artists' books by looking at both contemporary and historical examples, along with exploring book structures that will test one's precept of what a book is.

This workshop will introduce the key elements in the production and use of Western medieval manuscripts. While focused on Europe, it will situate Western manuscripts within a global context.

Celebrate Black History Month at the Fisher Library Open House! Visitors will see a display of rare books and archival materials drawn from across our collections.

Join us for a special evening where four contemporary artists discuss their collaborations with Fisher librarians on creating artist books utilizing collections from the library's collections.

Participants to this workshop will learn key elements to define special collections today and how to integrate these ideas into research, academic or creative projects, and other interests.

Join us for a workshop at the Fisher Library on the classical Islamic arts of "hüsn-i hat" (calligraphy) and "tezhip" (illumination) in the Turkish tradition.

This workshop will engage participants with examples across a range of eras and formats – from the unusual to the everyday – to learn about Canada’s unique history in print.

This talk employs the lens of Afrofuturism to address new dimensions of the Underground Railroad, detailing what imagination, tact, and technology, it took for fugitive Blacks to flee to the "outer spaces of slavery."

This workshop will explore the methods that early printers used to illustrate scientific books and how they were used to illustrate a range of complex scientific concepts, from Euclid’s geometry to Copernican heliocentrism to the minute details of human blood vessels.

Join us at the Fisher when we celebrate Latin American Heritage Month with an Open House. Come to see a selection of posters, ephemera, pamphlets, and books as examples of protest print culture in Latin America.

Scholar David Sclar will explore aspects of Moses Maimonides' impact and influence through a study of materiality, specifically the production and dissemination of textual objects.

Massimo Riva, Professor of Italian Studies and Modern Media at Brown University, will be speaking on eighteen- and nineteen-century optical devices.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to visit with the Fisher's Ethiopic books and scrolls between noon and 5pm, followed by a lecture by Eyob Derillo, Former Curator, Ethiopic and Ethiopian Collections, British Library. This free event is on a drop-in basis. All are welcome to attend.

Participants will learn key elements to define rare books today and how to integrate these ideas into research, academic or creative projects, and other bibliographical interests.